"If 5001 People Sign this Petition, Adeline Chia should not apologize to anyone! Journalists, bloggers and YOU have an opinion! Why should one apologize for having an honest opinion about something?! ps: This is in response to this petition: http://twitition.com/b6gmf"

"In David Mitchell's 2004 novel Cloud Atlas, there is a futuristic segment set in Korea where a corpocracy rules the land. Advances in bioengineering have allowed human creatures called fabricants to be bred as workers. Physically, they are perfect specimens - with identical, beautiful faces but without any higher consciousness. When they run out the course of their productive lives, they are destroyed.

I found this section of the book particularly disturbing. It is a chilling study of how a capitalist totalitarian society exploits the weak and turns humans into robots for money. Everything looks happy on the surface but beneath, it's maggots and rotten meat.

Recently, I got a taste of Mitchell's dystopian view - at a K-pop fan meet of super-band TVXQ."

Adeline Chia's K-Pop column is actually the best of her Culture Vulture ones.

"If 5001 People Sign this Petition, Adeline Chia should not apologize to anyone! Journalists, bloggers and YOU have an opinion! Why should one apologize for having an honest opinion about something?! ps: This is in response to this petition: http://twitition.com/b6gmf"

"In David Mitchell's 2004 novel Cloud Atlas, there is a futuristic segment set in Korea where a corpocracy rules the land. Advances in bioengineering have allowed human creatures called fabricants to be bred as workers. Physically, they are perfect specimens - with identical, beautiful faces but without any higher consciousness. When they run out the course of their productive lives, they are destroyed.

I found this section of the book particularly disturbing. It is a chilling study of how a capitalist totalitarian society exploits the weak and turns humans into robots for money. Everything looks happy on the surface but beneath, it's maggots and rotten meat.

Recently, I got a taste of Mitchell's dystopian view - at a K-pop fan meet of super-band TVXQ."

Adeline Chia's K-Pop column is actually the best of her Culture Vulture ones.